Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Later in the war they built 1,135 Mosquitos , before going on to produce fifty or so Fox Moths — and then their own indigenous designs after the conflict ceased .
2 In the first place , it is the antithesis of the classical : its inspiration is indigenous , not foreign ; Christian , not pagan ; medieval or even Tudor , not antique .
3 During January it also became clear that both Buchanan and , more especially , David Duke — the third Republican candidate and a former Ku Klux Klan leader — faced increasing difficulties in getting their names entered on to the Republican ballot papers in many states .
4 But it is clear that both Montenegro and Kosovo have a critical foreign debt problem .
5 The legal opinion obtained by CPRE and the Council for National Parks from Professor Francis Jacobs , one of the leading authorities on EEC law , makes it clear that both MAFF and DoE have been taking an unduly restrictive view in adopting their stance .
6 As the hours go by , it 's clear that neither Gilbert nor George is particularly miserable .
7 By the morning of Friday 10 November it was clear that neither Chamberlain nor Long would secure a majority and that some supporters of each of them would not contentedly follow the other .
8 It 's clear that neither Jane nor Grant want to split up but , in Jo 's view , they should stop living together if they want to save their relationship .
9 Its members organized aid for the Republican government while its leaders felt unable to do so until the following year when it became clear that neither Germany nor Italy had the slightest intention of discouraging aid to Franco .
10 As theologians have noticed , it is not clear that even God could become somebody other than himself .
11 It reported in June 1969 and it became clear that even Oxfordshire would change its size and shape .
12 He is more popular than either Margaret Thatcher or Neil Kinnock .
13 It is interesting that both Paul Sandby and Green came to painting through mapmaking .
14 It is interesting that both Mrs Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett only entered public life as feminists after their husbands ' deaths .
15 The secret was kept until 1690 , when evidence became public that both Charles II and James II had stated that Eikon Basilike was ‘ none of the King 's making , but by Dr Gauden ’ .
16 He was told this and not Wilson .
17 ‘ But my strategy was clear and once Riccardo had gone out — and he was really the last chance of anybody catching me — I just had to stay calm and not worry about winning . ’
18 The line reach Garth in May , Llanwrtyd in June 1867 and finally Llandovery in October 1868 , having traversed the two most significant engineering problems on this section — the Sugar Loaf tunnel and Cynghordy Viaduct .
19 The rest of us are rather less censorious and happily Nilsson 's greatest roles are all preserved on disc .
20 The season is only three months old and yet Leeds , Liverpool , Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester United are yesterday 's news .
21 For the British nuclear deterrent to be truly independent , it should be based upon British and not US delivery systems .
22 The conquistadors ' descendants have often been challenged — from outside by British and then North American capitalists , from within by ( to use the author 's formulation ) ‘ the Communist Party or Arab and Jewish minorities ’ .
23 The good side in The Lord of the Rings does win , but its casualties include , besides Théoden and Boromir , beauty , Lothlórien , Middle-earth and even Gollum .
24 It was still soaking wet and now Wexford carefully removed from its leather partitions a photograph of Lilian Hatton , a driving licence and a darts club membership card and spread them in the sun to dry .
25 I might be able to pick up Radio 5 when conditions are good cos I can usually get Radio 2 and even RTE ( Irish station ) late in the evening .
26 ( July 24-Aug 23 ) Your ruler the Sun takes a swipe at Neptune on October 2 and then Jupiter on the 3rd .
27 Modernists of the 1910s had been Latin-lovers , and often enough ( like Pound and Eliot ) immigrants ; Bloomsbury was ardently francophile ; and in the 1930s W. H. Auden and his school , if only to show they were not Modernist and not Bloomsbury , had haunted Hamburg and Berlin and admired German communism .
28 The three travellers looked at one another and then Floy said , ‘ Sit down . ’
29 Floy and Snodgrass stared at one another and then Floy said , ‘ We 'll have to follow them . ’
30 However , there is an expectation that children should use English and not Patwa to their parents .
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